SUVA, Fiji – Authorities rushed yesterday to deliver clean drinking water and other supplies to thousands of villagers who fled flooding from tropical storms that have killed at least eight people on this Pacific island nation.
The government declared a state of emergency in the western districts that were the hardest hit and are also home to most of the country’s international resorts. There have been no reports of tourists in trouble.
Fiji’s largest airport in Nadi, on the main island of Viti Levu, remained open but the city was flooded and some tourists were being turned back to their points of origin.
Tourists still at resorts were advised by the National Disaster Office to hunker down in preparation for more rough weather.
Floodwaters were slowly subsiding yesterday in some of the worst hit villages, the government said, but forecasters predicted more heavy rain later this week. – Nampa-AP
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